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Blayze

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Finally after trying to get Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 to work on my laptop, I switched over to Red Hat 7.2 and it works like a charm.
Mandrake no matter what would not want to work with my sound card in this laptop. However Red Hat detected it just fine. Wierd... cause I had no problems installing Mandrake on my main machine.
 

ThaGrandCow

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Maybe the fact that I was using Mandrake was part of my problem. Mandrake absolutely HATES my wireless card. I had to go back to WinXP :(
 

manly

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<< I've heard that SuSE is really good on laptops. >>



SuSE is really good, period. =)

TheGrandCow,

Would you like to have SuSE Pro 7.3 sent to you?
 

Kadarin

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<< Finally after trying to get Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 to work on my laptop, I switched over to Red Hat 7.2 and it works like a charm.
Mandrake no matter what would not want to work with my sound card in this laptop. However Red Hat detected it just fine. Wierd... cause I had no problems installing Mandrake on my main machine.
>>



In any case, congratulations on breaking free of Microserf tyranny :D Just out of curiosity, what desktop environment do you prefer?
 

Nemesis77

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<<

<< I've heard that SuSE is really good on laptops. >>



SuSE is really good, period. =)

TheGrandCow,

Would you like to have SuSE Pro 7.3 sent to you?
>>



I know SuSE is just plain good, what I meant was that it's better on laptops that other distros.

Send me SuSE Pro 7.3? No need. I was a SuSE user for several years before I switched to Debian. Currently, I'm planning to switch to Gentoo.